Without color, the eye slows down.
What remains is shape, light, and attention.
Black and white does not simplify the world. It removes the noise that keeps us from noticing it.
Faces feel closer.
Expressions linger longer.
What we read in an image comes less from the scene itself and more from what we bring to it.
Monochrome changes how we see, not by adding meaning, but by asking us to look again. And sometimes, looking again is enough.